Yes, yours truly is responsible for the quotation in the headline above, which is from this article in the Law Society Gazette.
I also love that they quote my joke “93%” statistic as if I had intended it to be legit.
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From the article: “Gibbons suggested reading and studying poetry as it makes ‘you appreciate the importance of every word’.”
This is reasonable advice at the fairly abstract level, but just be sure you’re reading Auden and not Tennyson.
“The old order changeth, yielding place to new”
Just so: “This Agreement…Witnesseth”